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The design considerations and operational features of DoPHOT, a point-spread function (PSF) fitting photometry program, are described. Some relevant details of the PSF fitting are discussed. The quality of the photometry returned by dophot is assessed via reductions of an "artificial" globular cluster generated from a list of stars with known magnitudes and colors. Results from comparative tests between dophot and DAOPHOT using this synthetic cluster and real data are also described.

The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) consists of 26418 redshifts of galaxies selected from a CCD-based catalog obtained in the $R$ band. The survey covers over 700 square degrees in 6 strips, each 1.5$\arcdeg$ x 80$\arcdeg$, three each in the North and South galactic caps. The median redshift in the survey is about 30000 km~s$^{-1}$. Essential features of the galaxy selection and redshift measurement methods are described and tabulated here. These details are important for subsequent analysis of the LCRS data. Two dimensional representations of the redshift distributions reveal many repetitions of voids, on the scale of about 5000 km~s$^{-1}$, sharply bounded by large walls of galaxies as seen in nearby surveys. Statistical investigations of the mean galaxy properties and of clustering on the large scale are reported elsewhere. These include studies of the luminosity function, power spectrum in two and three dimensions, correlation function, pairwise velocity distribution, identification of large scale structures, and a group catalog. The LCRS redshift catalog will be made available to interested investigators at an internet web site and in archival form as an Astrophysical Journal CD-ROM.Comment: 40 pages, including 11 of 17 postscript figures, uses AASTEX v4.0 style files, to appear in ApJ. The full paper, as well as the LCRS redshift catalog, are available at http://manaslu.astro.utoronto.ca/~lin/lcrs.html (North America) and at http://www.aip.de:8080/~tucker/lcrs-mirror.html (Europe

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